Bilbo Baggins 13, Snow White 7

Hmm, I wonder if there is some connection between the shortest day of the year and dwarfs -- or dwarves.

Coincidence? I think not.

Why else would the long awaited trailer for The Hobbit be released today, Dec. 21, 2011.

The Hobbit
Sept. 21, 1937
(or Dec. 21, 2011) 

• Thorin Oakenshield
• Fili
• Kili
• Oin
• Gloin
• Dwalin
• Balin
• Bifur
• Bofur
• Bombur
• Dori
• Nori
• Ori 

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Dec. 21, 1937

• Doc
• Grumpy
• Bashful
• Sleepy
• Happy
• Sneezy
• Dopey

It looks like 1937 was a good year for dwarves -- or dwarfs.

Incidentally, J.R.R. Tolkien deliberately used dwarves, which corresponds with elf and elves -- or scarf and scarves. The original editor of The Hobbit "corrected" Tolkien's plural of dwarves to dwarfs, as did the Puffin paperback edition of The Lord of the Rings.

Whatever.

Happy Winter Solstice!